In line with tradition, Kalaiyarasan, Gokuldas, Bharathidasan, S Sunder, MV Muralidharan and D Krishnakumar today signed in the Devanagari script in court to become Madras high court judges, high court sources told The Hindu , after Madras high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and the Supreme ...

The Supreme Court was told on Wednesday that liquor baron Vijay Mallya has offered to pay Rs 4,000 crore to settle outstanding dues against the grounded Kingfisher Airlines on account of loans extended by a consortium of 13 banks headed by the SBI The apex court bench of Justice Kurien Joseph and Ro...

Bar Council of India (BCI) member S Prabhakaran and 11 other Madras advocates are now senior advocates in the Madras high court, reported the Times of India . NL Rajah, R Vaigai, Sathish Parasaran, A Sirajudeen, Isaac Mohanlal, R Singaravelan, TP Manoharan, Veera Kathiravan, Karthik, Anand and Xavie...

Senior counsel Dushyant Dave is now officially Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president again, after his short-lived resignation in mid-February was held by the executive committee to have been void.

When an undertrial gets produced in court thrice a year it costs the government Rs 1,000. But now, undertrials need not be produced in courts as trial court proceedings can go ahead through video conferencing, which will help the government save Rs 100 crores per year. The facility is being installe...

The Supreme Court collegium is learnt to have stood by its decision to transfer Delhi HC judge Rajiv Shakdher after the law ministry sent back his case for reconsideration, said several persons aware of the outcome. The law ministry had asked for a review after lawyers protested against Shakdher’s t...

The ousted Congress government in Uttarakhand got a major reprieve today after the state high court allowed it to prove its majority in the assembly on Thursday despite President’s Rule in the hill state. A stunned central government, which in a dramatic turn of events on Sunday dismissed the Congre...

100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in online marketplaces is now allowed, reported the PTI . Websites such as Flipkart, Amazon and others which provide a platform to various sellers to sell their products can now take 100 per cent FDI, but any websites owned by the sellers themselves have ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed market regulator SEBI to go ahead with the sale of _Sahara _properties whose unencumbered title deeds are in its possession. The step is being taken to recover investors’ money that Sahara groups’ two companies had collected from public through Optionally Fully C...

A Special POTA Court on Tuesday held 10 people guilty in connection with the triple bomb blasts in Mumbai between December 2002 and March 2003 that killed at least 12 people and injured 139 others. Acquitting three other accused, POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) Special Judge PR Deshmukh posted th...

The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the CBI to file response to former union minister PK Thungon’s bail application and an appeal against his three and a half years’ sentence in a corruption case. Justice Siddharth Mridul issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thungon’s bail...

If you are attacked by a bull while walking on a street, what are the chances of your making a successful claim for compensation from the municipal authorities, who have a responsibility to keep stray cattle away from the public streets?

In the history of political parties in India, the rise and fall of Janata Party must form an important chapter.

A Hyderabad court today granted bail to 25 students and two faculty members of University of Hyderabad, arrested last week for ransacking the office of Vice Chancellor P Appa Rao and attacking police while protesting his return after two-month leave. The 25th Metropolitan Magistrate’s court at Miyap...

The Supreme Court bench comprising of justices Ranjan Gogoi, Arun Mishra, and Prafulla C Pant today told Raj Kumar Mehta, the counsel for Lalit Kumar Mishra, the former Additional Judge of the Orissa high court, who challenged his non-appointment as the permanent judge of the high court that there are no records of the proceedings of the Supreme Court collegium.

The Supreme Court is set to examine the government’s recommendation banning the Muslim divorce custom of “Triple Talaq”, after ordering the Ministry of Women and Child Development today to produce the confidential high-level committee report of the union government that contains this recommendation.

The Uttarakhand High Court (HC) on Monday began hearing a petition filed by the Congress against imposition of President’s Rule in the state on Sunday. Justice UC Dhyani is hearing the petition. Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi is representing his party in the case. The union cabinet rec...

The Delhi high court today declined to cancel the interim bail granted to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student union president Kanhaiya Kumar for now. Justice Suresh Kait adjourned the hearing to 28 April after Delhi Police said it was verifying whether Kanhaiya violated interim bail conditions...

The National Human Rights Commission today issued notice to the Chhattisgarh government in connection with the alleged wrongful detention and torture of a journalist , who is a human rights activist. The state chief secretary and director general of police have been asked to submit a factual report ...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) secretary Gaurav Bhatia rubbished a news report alleging he was removed today from the post of additional advocate general (AAG) of Uttar Pradesh, saying that he had filed his request to be relieved more than a month back.